History (U.S. and Canada)

Manuscripts

Consists of approximately 20,000 documents of general correspondence, including incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches,
and notes and printed material from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65.
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The first release of the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress contains approximately 2,000 items relating to Douglass's life as an escaped
slave, abolitionist, editor, orator, and public servant. The papers span the years 1841-1964, with the bulk of the material from 1862-1895. The collection also contains the writings of some of Douglass's contemporaries such as Henry Ward Beecher, Ida B. Wells, Gerrit Smith, and Horace Greeley. Subjects covered in the collection include politics, emancipation, racial prejudice, women's suffrage, and prison reform.
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The Julian Samora Library at the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame collects, preserves, and provides access to rare books, manuscripts, personal
papers, archives, and oral histories related to the Latino experience in the United States with a particular focus on the Midwest.
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"... brings together 100,000 pages [when complete] of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images
of the original manuscripts, extensively indexed and online for the first time."--Home page.
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Facsimiles of the manuscript papers of the Secretary of State from 1509 to 1782. Includes a fully searchable set of Calendars, linked to manuscript facsimiles,
with essays by historians of the period.
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